AMDA’s Drive to Deprescribe (D2D) initiative put practitioners behind the wheel on medication optimization. During a recent AMDA On-The-Go podcast, guest host Jennifer Pruskowski, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCGP, CPE, sat down with Michael Steinman, MD, co-director of the U.S. Deprescribing Research Network, to tal...
The data submission period for performance year 2025 of the Quality Payment Program ends on March 31, 2026, at 8:00 PM ET. Medicare Shared Savings Program Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) should review their quality data for completeness and accuracy and submit it by the deadline.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released a final rule calling for nursing homes to disclose specific ownership and managerial information—including skilled nursing facility medical directors.
AMDA – The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine has been advocating for...
Nearly everyone in America has someone they care about who has needed the services and care provided in a skilled nursing facility, nursing home, or assisted living facility. The impact that decreased Medicaid funding can have on the quality of care provided to frail older adults residing in post-acute car...
The potential for spread of COVID-19 infections in skilled nursing facilities and other long-term care sites poses new challenges for nursing home administrators to protect patients and staff. It is anticipated that as acute care hospitals reach capacity, nursing homes may retain COVID-19 infected resident...
The purpose of this article is to review the impact of advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) on the quality measure (QM) scores of the 16 participating nursing homes of the Missouri Quality Initiative (MOQI) intervention. The MOQI was one of 7 program sites in the US, with specific interventions uniq...
Transitions of care involves the movement of a patient between care settings and the transfer of information with them to facilitate a seamless continuum of care and to enable patients’ wishes to be followed - no matter where in the continuum of care they are. This is an important issue, as care for today’...
Teamed with physicians, advanced practice nurses (APRNs) and physician assistants (PAs) may enhance the nursing and medical care available to post-acute and long-term care facility patients. Driven by documented positive outcomes and favorable legislation, the presence of the APRNs and PAs continues to gro...
In the years following the COVID-19 pandemic, immunization coverage has declined among frontline post-acute and long-term care (PALTC) staff, such as nurses, certified nursing assistants, and kitchen staff. We took a novel approach to addressing these declines by engaging frontline staff in design of immun...